Jay Leno does stand-up at The Mirage tonight and Saturday, just a few days after NBC said Leno will host a “Tonight Show”-like hour at 10 p.m. every weeknight, starting next fall.
WASHINGTON — Executives for the nuclear industry’s lobbying arm said Thursday they have told aides to President-elect Barack Obama that the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository should remain in the nation’s energy playbook, and there is no need to rush decisions about the project.
After a discussion called “emotionally repugnant” by Superintendent Walt Rulffes, Clark County School Board members voted 5-1 to accept economic assumptions requiring $120 million in budget cuts for the 2009-10 school year.
The city of North Las Vegas soon will take over management of the North Las Vegas Housing Authority in a last-ditch effort to right the failing agency that provides housing to the poor, officials said.
Congressional concerns about disease outbreaks in ambulatory surgery centers, including the hepatitis C outbreak at a Las Vegas endoscopy center, have prompted a nationwide study to determine what role the facilities play in the spread of health care-associated infections.
When drunken or drugged drivers plow their cars and trucks into bus stops, the results often are a worst-case scenario. Passengers doing nothing more than awaiting a ride to work are killed or seriously injured. Now, more than 3,000 bus stops and shelters in the valley will be reviewed to determine if safety improvements can be made, officials with the Regional Transportation Commission announced.
About 400 exhibitors are camped out through Saturday in the Las Vegas Convention Center for Cowboy Christmas, the official gift show of the National Finals Rodeo.
Latrovia Reed burst into tears the moment she stepped into a courtroom on Thursday.
RENO — A pair of pink, thong underwear found with the body of a 19-year-old college student may have been used to strangle her, a forensic pathologist testified Thursday.
Three children stood for five hours Wednesday at a busy Pahrump intersection, sent there by their mother to punish them for mistreating family pets.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A Lake Havasu City, Ariz., man was arrested Thursday in the February death of his girlfriend’s 1-year-old son.
A handler was bitten on the leg at the MGM Grand’s lion habitat Wednesday night, a company spokesman confirmed Thursday.
The state attorney general wants businesses in Las Vegas and Pahrump to be on watch for a fundraising scam involving people acting as high school boosters offering fake advertising space.
A 7-year-old boy died Thursday after jumping off the back of a slow-moving pickup in a northeast neighborhood, Las Vegas police said.
Last week, comedian Bill Engvall and his wife, Gail, were hanging with friends at home in Southern California, when they got into yet another argument about the “scruples” that separate men and women. “It got kind of weird,” he says.
Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurants have introduced this year’s WinterBock beer and a seasonal menu to complement its rich flavors. The menu includes spicy tuna crisps, lobster bisque, bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin, walnut-crusted barramundi, pumpkin cheesecake and more. Local outlets are at 3987 Paradise Road and 750 S. Rampart Blvd. …
It’s an act that’s not really an act, and the man on the other end of the line only knows how to play the role by playing himself.
You know that time-honored holiday dish that turns up on the table every year? The one that reappears annually because it just wouldn’t be a holiday celebration without it — even though everybody’s sick of it by now?
Think of LAX not only as a place to party. Think of it, also, as the hottest celebrity magnet in town.
I liked the atmosphere at The Capital Grille so much, I was in no hurry to leave.